Yooka-Laylee Release Date
The anticipated game Yooka-Laylee is already released on Linux, Mac, PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One and Switch in the USA and UK.
Linux
April 11, 2017Confirmed
23
Mac
April 11, 2017Confirmed
23
PC
April 11, 2017Confirmed
4546
PS4
April 11, 2017Confirmed
6667
Switch
December 14, 2017Confirmed
104105
Xbox One
April 11, 2017Confirmed
3738
Linux
April 11, 2017Confirmed
23
Mac
April 11, 2017Confirmed
23
PC
April 11, 2017Confirmed
4546
PS4
April 11, 2017Confirmed
6667
Switch
December 14, 2017Confirmed
104105
Xbox One
April 11, 2017Confirmed
3738
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Yooka-Laylee is an all-new 3D platformer from the creative talent behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country games. We’ve come together to form Playtonic Games and create a spiritual successor to our most cherished work from the past!
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What do the critics say?
Based on 53 Yooka-Laylee reviews, Yooka-Laylee gets an average review score of 71.
5/5
www.thexboxhub.comXbox One
Yooka-Laylee has done what everyone, developers and players, had hoped it to do and brought the 3D platformer kicking and screaming into gaming mainstream again.
2550d ago94/100
www.game-over.comXbox One
Despite some hiccups, Yooka-Laylee manages to not only succeed where Banjo-Kazooie did, but exceed it in terms of overall variety.
2550d ago9/10
www.cgmagonline.comXbox One
Yooka-Laylee is both a joyful ode to Rare’s heyday and a polished platformer that stands head and shoulders above what few contemporaries exist in the genre.
2550d ago4.5/5
www.escapistmagazine.comPC
Yooka-Laylee is a very solid contender that's worth the price of admission.
2550d ago90/100
www.xboxaddict.comXbox One
Yooka-Laylee is a game that is a pleasant surprise, an enjoyable experience, and one we highly recommend for gamers of all types.
2550d ago8.5/10
wccftech.comPS4
It might not be as good as your vague memories of the hallowed games of Rare, but Yooka-Laylee has a little bit of that old lovable magic in it.
2550d ago8.5/10
www.gamespace.comSwitch
Fantastic fun for all ages, and tons of content to boot.
2290d ago83/100
cogconnected.comXbox One
Yooka-Laylee made me feel like a kid again and proves there’s still a place for the classic 3D collectathon.
2550d ago4/5
www.slantmagazine.comPS4
The game isn’t interested in coasting on nostalgia, but in establishing brand-new memories for the next generation.
2550d ago4/5
twinfinite.netPC
Yooka-Laylee is basically the Banjo-Kazooie game players have been waiting well over a decade for.
2550d ago8/10
www.gameinformer.comPC
This is a game that was built for those who look back with fondness on the classics that spawned it, and in that regard, it delivers completely.
2550d ago8/10
darkzero.co.ukPC
I found it a ton of fun and terribly addicting to the point where I just consumed it in about 2 days.
2550d ago8/10
www.playstationlifestyle.netPS4
With an asking price of $39.99, this is an easy recommendation for platforming fans.
2550d ago8/10
arcadesushi.comXbox One
Yooka-Laylee is a lot of goofy fun wrapped in a light and colorful retro package.
2550d ago8/10
www.cubed3.comSwitch
Absolutely sublime platform action from the team behind Banjo-Kazooie, et al.
2290d ago4/5
www.gamerevolution.comPC
By not holding up Banjo-Kazooie as the last bastion of platformers, Playtonic was able to turn Yooka-Laylee into an overall improvement on the formula it so closely mimics.
2550d ago4/5
attackofthefanboy.comXbox One
Yooka-Laylee is the game that fans have been waiting for all these years.
2550d ago8/10
www.gamegrin.comPC
At its best, Yooka-Laylee reminds me why I fell in love with colourful platformers.
2550d ago8/10
nzgamer.comPS4
Colourful characters, and enough adult humour to keep you wondering how this is a G rated game.
2550d ago80/100
www.gamespew.comSwitch
To put it simply, the Switch version of Yooka-Laylee is brilliant.
2290d ago4/5
www.theguardian.comXbox One
What the game loses by not having had a Rare/Nintendo-sized QA department to smooth its rough edges it compensates for with a princely pile of ideas, and a lovely control scheme...
2550d ago8/10
www.destructoid.comXbox One
Playtonic's first foray is rough around the edges, but the center is so full of heart that it'll melt away the more you play it.
2550d ago4/5
www.pcworld.comPC
It's a loving throwback to a bygone era and style of gaming.
2550d ago8/10
www.nintendolife.comSwitch
Do yourself a favour and give this one a go; it may not have been too well received to begin with, but Playtonic has polished it up quite nicely; it is a worthy addition to the ...
2290d ago8/10
www.forbes.comXbox One
A new renaissance, if you will, of the 3D platformer.
2550d ago7.5/10
www.gamecrate.comPC
It’s a faithful recreation of the formula that made games of the late 90s and early 2000s both so special and so frustrating.
2550d ago7.5/10
www.dualshockers.comXbox One
Yooka-Laylee is a fun, familiar, and nostalgic trip to a genre from the past that still holds up incredibly well in the present.
2550d ago7/10
wccftech.comSwitch
Yooka-Laylee is a fun throwback to a simpler time, but in the process some things got lost in translation.
2290d ago3.5/5
www.vooks.netSwitch
Yooka-Laylee is a terrific throwback to an era long dead.
2290d ago7/10
www.ign.comPC
Yooka-Laylee is a good reminder that this genre, once thought to be dead, still has some life left in it.
2550d ago7/10
metro.co.ukPS4
Yooka-Laylee’s reliance on nostalgia may struggle to find new fans.
2550d ago7/10
www.thesixthaxis.comPS4
At its very core, Yooka-Laylee succeeds in reviving a format long forgotten and does so with such vigor and passion.
2550d ago3.5/5
www.hardcoregamer.comPS4
While Yooka-Laylee’s less-than-clear communication gameplay-wise does toss up a baffled look on more than one instance, its efforts are still enjoyable.
2550d ago7/10
www.ztgd.comXbox One
Except maybe for that music, my goodness is it good.
2550d ago3.5/5
switchplayer.netSwitch
The extra time taken to bring Yooka Laylee to the Nintendo Switch has been worth it.
2290d ago68/100
www.pcgamer.comPC
A decent revival of the N64-era 3D platformer, but with all the flaws that carries, as well as some new ones of its own.
2550d ago6/10
www.psu.comPS4
Yooka-Laylee shows there’s room for nostalgia-flavored 3D platforming in today’s market.
2550d ago3/5
www.digitallydownloaded.netPS4
It's crushing that Yooka-Laylee does not reach the heights of brilliance of the game it clearly draws its inspiration from.
2550d ago6/10
www.gamespew.comXbox One
Yooka-Laylee then, is somewhat of a letdown.
2550d ago6/10
www.criticalhit.netPS4
Yooka-Laylee is a nostalgic trip to the past that ignores all the innovations that came after it.
2550d ago6/10
www.nintendoworldreport.comSwitch
I can only really recommend pushing through Yooka-Laylee’s pedestrian campaign to the most enthusiastic of old Rare’s fans.
2290d ago6/10
www.gamespot.comXbox One
Ultimately, Yooka-Laylee’s best and worst aspects come directly from its predecessor.
2550d ago6/10
www.pcgamesn.comPC
Yooka-Laylee gave me the kind of thrills that I’d long been looking to rediscover, but that initial warm blast of nostalgia quickly fades.
2550d ago3/5
www.usgamer.netXbox One
Unfortunately, technical issues stick to it like bat guano.
2550d ago3/5
www.gamesradar.comPS4
Yooka-Laylee is a game with noble aspirations, grounded by clumsily flawed execution.
2550d ago3/5
wegotthiscovered.comXbox One
At its best, Yooka-Laylee is a fun retread of '90s-era 3D platforming.
2550d ago6/10
www.pushsquare.comPS4
It's colourful, there are collectibles, and it's got a rotten camera: Yooka-Laylee is a 90s platformer to a tee.
2550d ago55/100
www.xboxachievements.comXbox One
Yooka-Laylee is not a bad game, but by God does it have its problems.
2550d ago5.5/10
www.polygon.comPC
Yooka-Laylee looks the part of an updated platformer, but some of its mechanics should have stayed back in the era it came from.
2550d ago5/10
www.godisageek.comXbox One
Yooka-Laylee could have been the start of a new generation of 3D platformers, but its design leaves it firmly stuck in the past.
2550d ago2.5/5
www.trustedreviews.comPS4
Yooka-Laylee is a nostalgic old-school adventure, but it’s too retro for its own good.
2550d ago4/10
www.videogamer.comPS4
It just feels very out of place in 2017.
2550d ago2/10
www.thejimquisition.comXbox One
It’s everything wrong about the formative years of 3D platforming and it somehow retained none of what made the genre’s highlights endure.
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